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Summary: Imagine being eaten by Adrienne Barbeau
Review: This is an updated version of Joseph Conrad's "Hart of Darkness" Some times it is necessary to place stories in different context so people can relate to them. Look how they changed "Romeo and Juliet" into "West Side Story". Once before they tried to convert "Hart of Darkness." i.e. "Apocalypse Now" (1979) (...). However you can see how this version has more redeeming social value. The DVD version allows equal billing with the avocados. You need to watch it once for the story and again to pick up the nuances. Now a chance to go where no man has gone before (and returnd)
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Summary: Hilarious spoof - a classic B movie!
Review: This is one of my all time favorite movies. It's a hilarious spoof on Heart of Darkness, and a B-movie all the way, down to the classically stereotyped characters and the low budget settings. It pokes fun at feminism, academia, and stereotypical gender roles.The basic plot line is that the whole eastern part of Southern California is a vast avocado jungle, inhabited by cannibalistic feminist "natives" who eat men with guacamole dip. The US government claims to want to protect the "free world's last avocado source" by retaking the avocado jungle. They recruit a feminist scholar from Spitzer College (actually set at UC Riverside) to make contact with the cannibal women. On her mission she takes along a stereotyped "girly" girl, Bunny (who wears all pink, takes a curling iron, and has fantasies about being tied up with red licorice) and a bigoted but bumbling male chauvinist. The result is a hilarious romp. Academic types will love all the academic jokes: "Your methodology is shabby!" I agree with the other reviewers that the picture and sound quality is not great. I've personally never been able to find a high quality version of this movie. I think it just doesn't exist. This is not the Matrix or some other high budget DVD. In some ways, though, the sound and picture quality is kind of classic. It very much goes along with the whole "feel" of the movie. A B-movie through and through. Warning: there's a short scene with nudity at the beginning, for those who would be disturbed by this.
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Summary: It looks like a big lego to me.
Review: This movie was hysterical. This was the "perfect" find. As we watch over and over again films like Tommy Boy and Airplane!, we tend to think that perhaps that is all that there is to offer from comedy. Well, I am here to shout that you would be wrong. I suggest that everyone that takes the time to read this review should go out to the movie store and watch a film that always scared them. I do not mean a horror film, but I mean a movie that just made you say out loud, "I am never going to rent this film". Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death would have been my choice. Just by looking at the DVD cover art, this would not have been a film I would have wanted to jump up and down to see, but now after seeing it I have gained a new found appreciation for older comedies.
The 80s were overburdened by "big-budget" comedies. Those that carried big named comedians, but there was also a few that slipped through the cracks. In 1989, this film was one of those. This was a very sharp minded film with a great cast and a flawless script. Now, don't get me wrong, this was no Vanilla Sky, but it did take a very heated topic at the time and create a comedy that didn't denounce the issues.
This was, and will remain, a story about feminism. I asked Jen, my wife and feminist, if this film was ever shown in any of her graduate or undergraduate classes, and she replied ... sadly, "no". It should have been. This film demonstrates what feminists are striving for in the form of film. I loved this film, and so did my wife.
I suggest this to anyone out there that is looking for that perfect "campy" movie that will make you laugh, never use your mind, and create a strong point for feminism!!
Grade: ***** out of *****
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Summary: It's AWFUL.... I LOVED It!
Review: This was by far the WORST movie I've ever seen, including anything by Ed Wood! Boobs, women in leather skirts, bad puns, a leopard in a corn feild and Bill Mahr as Jim! A must-see. Really. Would I lie to you?
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